Re: NetBSD Cobalt restore CD 4.99.72 on Qube 2700

On Oct 11, 2008, at 1:29 AM 10/11/08, Anthony Howe wrote:

> Just want to say that the NetBSD Cobalt restore CD 4.99.72 work like a
> charm first time with my old Cobalt Qube 2700.
>
> Had some trouble trying to do a diskless install from my OpenBSD file
> server (MAKEDEV/mknod differences in preparing /nfsroot), but the
> restore CD was brilliant.
>
> I had struggled for several days with the Debian installer with no  
> luck,
> only to find out they have some bug in CoLo and/or their installer
> specific to 2700 that they've given up on, because of the lack of a
> serial console.
>
> When I noticed some where that NetBSD had a port for Cobalt,  
> thought I'd
> give it a try. Absolutely brilliant. Hate to throw out old and cool  
> kit
> like the Cobalt. While I'm more familiar with OpenBSD, Debian, and
> Ubuntu, and have tried other distros, I've never tried NetBSD. This
> should be fun and I look forward to learning about it and porting some
> of my software.
>
> Once again to the folks who made this possible, thanks for the A+  
> work.
> If you're ever in Cannes, glass(es) of wine in the offering.

Indeed!  Much thanks to those who put this all together! :-)

A side note though - be damn careful when you build a new kernel to  
enable usb or something on the 2700.  Screw it up and you'll either  
be pulling the drive or re-loading the system again because there is  
no console.

*whistles innocently*

--
Mike Hebel <---Has to re-load his Qube 2700 again because he left  
something wrong in the new kernel.


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